Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft plans to release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 via the company's automatic update service starting June 16.The advanced announcement is a result of the software maker's promise to give at least a 30-day notice before making Office service packs available through Microsoft Update, which is a part of Windows ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Yahoo is to start flagging links to sites that may contain dangerous content. Google has been warning users if a potentially dangerous website is behind the link in the list of hits displayed for some time now. Yahoo is following suit by marking websites that could possibly infect visitors with ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Security's rising star, Webroot, plans to offer web and malware filtering as a service to SMBs, the first vendor of any size to offer such a capability in subscription form.
The software-as a service (SaaS) model, which extends the email filtering service already offered by the company, will appeal to smaller ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I am pretty sure that there are a number of you out there reading this blog over a wireless network. Given that wireless is so widely distributed these days, its not uncommon that users are unaware of how insecure their wireless setup maybe.
Unfortunately one other reality is that a number ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
As the world of virtualization moves forward, organisations are faced with compelling reasons to virtualize: factors like server consolidation, high energy bills, faster hardware, ease of use and step back and quick snapshot technology make the virtual computing realm become more attractive.
In some organisations virtualization has already become a large ...
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